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Portray vs. Photograph — What's the Difference?

Portray vs. Photograph — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Portray and Photograph

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Portray

To depict or represent pictorially; make a picture of
The painter portrays a typical country scene.

Photograph

A photograph (also known as a photo) is an image created by light falling on a photosensitive surface, usually photographic film or an electronic image sensor, such as a CCD or a CMOS chip. Most photographs are created using a smartphone/camera, which uses a lens to focus the scene's visible wavelengths of light into a reproduction of what the human eye would see.

Portray

To describe or represent in words
The author portrays the world of the fantastically wealthy.

Photograph

A picture made using a camera, in which an image is focused on to light-sensitive material and then made visible and permanent by chemical treatment, or stored digitally
A photograph of her father

Portray

To describe or depict in a certain way
The book portrays her as hardworking and driven.
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Photograph

Take a photograph of
She has photographed all of the major ballet companies worldwide
He was commissioned to photograph in the Crimea during the war

Portray

To represent dramatically, as on the stage
The actor portrays an obsessed lover in the film.

Photograph

An image, especially a positive print, recorded by exposing a photosensitive surface to light, especially in a camera.

Portray

To paint or draw the likeness of.
I will portray a king on horseback.

Photograph

To take a photograph of.

Portray

(figuratively) To represent by an image or look.

Photograph

To practice photography.

Portray

(figuratively) To describe in words; to convey.

Photograph

To be the subject for photographs
She photographs well.

Portray

To play a role; to depict a character, person, situation, or event.
For my next movie, I will be portraying Shakespeare.

Photograph

A picture created by projecting an image onto a photosensitive surface such as a chemically treated plate or film, CCD receptor, etc.

Portray

(obsolete) To adorn.

Photograph

To take a photograph (of).

Portray

To paint or draw the likeness of; as, to portray a king on horseback.
Take a tile, and lay it before thee, and portray upon it the city, even Jerusalem.

Photograph

To fix permanently in the memory etc.

Portray

Hence, figuratively, to describe in words.

Photograph

(intransitive) To appear in a photograph.
She photographs well. The camera loves her.

Portray

To adorn with pictures.
Spear and helmets thronged, and shieldsVarious with boastful arguments potrayed.

Photograph

A picture or likeness obtained by photography.

Portray

Portray in words;
The book portrays the actor as a selfish person

Photograph

To take a picture or likeness of by means of photography; as, to photograph a view; to photograph a group.
He makes his pen drawing on white paper, and they are afterwards photographed on wood.
He is photographed on my mind.

Portray

Make a portrait of;
Goya wanted to portray his mistress, the Duchess of Alba

Photograph

To practice photography; to take photographs.

Portray

Assume or act the character of;
She impersonates Madonna
The actor portrays an elderly, lonely man

Photograph

A picture of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide; recorded by a camera on light-sensitive material

Portray

Represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture, or verbally;
The father is portrayed as a good-looking man in this painting

Photograph

Record on photographic film;
I photographed the scene of the accident
She snapped a picture of the President

Photograph

Undergo being photographed in a certain way;
Children photograph well

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